Completely agree. Tax the rich, by all means, but don't tax the job creators, and the ones who'll up sticks and leave overnight without a second thought. And like you say, the ancillary jobs the provide to genuine Irish SME's is massive. If this is our niche, so be it. We're like the Monaco of the ...

imo it's better to have low taxed multi nationals than no multi nationals. Well thats a false dichotomy. Well to me it is pretty black and white. We can spin the old line about our educated workforce and knowledge economy but we all know it was purely the tax breaks that attracted the multinational...

imo it's better to have low taxed multi nationals than no multi nationals. tax aside the benefit to local economies is huge. And so many Irish SMEs rely on the trade from the multis... Completely agree. Tax the rich, by all means, but don't tax the job creators, and the ones who'll up sticks and le...

Seems to be a lot of competing narratives going on about the whole thing. Clearly there are a lot of vested interests. Its not even clear to me if Ireland would even get the money if it was recouped. Either way it just highlights the ridiculousness of the deals we give to multi-nationals while maki...

we have been a bit cheeky though....making ourselves a tax haven of sorts while reaping the benefits from Europe at the same time was wondering when it would catch up with us...Europe have been shaking the finger at us for years it will take a few more years before it all comes to a head i'm sure i ...

Finished Bloodline S1, really enjoyed it. A deep slow burning, dysfunctional family drama. Ben Mendelson is really superb in it, his character has a great blend of charisma and malevolence. The cinematography throughout has this really distinctive mixed focus POV style, really unique and so well don...

So fess up, who is playing pokemon go? playing it a bit. haven't gotten into it proper yet. caught 3 wandering about work today and one out at the hospital when picking up mum. :thumbs: i'm afraid to download it, I get very addicted to mobile games. Rodeo stampede is my current one Also I don't lik...

Guys, heading to London the bank holiday weekend (ours, not theirs). Been before so know the sites etc but never been to a show & we're looking to go to one. What's the best ones at the minute or what would ye recommend? of all the musicals i've ever seen, nothing is a show stopping/awe inspiring a...